I am pretty retarded but who isn't in this world? We are all operating way under our capacity mentally. Our brains/nervous systems are biological mega-computers with the power to synthesize reality and project it in realtime 3D space down to the picosecond in sync with physical reality. We all contend with the same physical elements of reality but the way it looks and what we think things represent varies greatly depending on our particular outlook.

So after digging into production glitches it is actually a shadow caused by a double lighting effect.

There are two separate lights creating both that washed out look (front light) and a light from above creating the chin shadow. That's why it moves with his face as well, because part of the shadow is caused by the guy's chin.

Example of the effect: https://streamable.com/y1ighi